Sunrise on a dirty face

Duration: 0:33:00

Genre: Adaptation | Historical

Year Published: 1968

Creator: Indiana University Instructional Support Services: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians release of a Cavalcade of America television series episode, "Sunrise on a Dirty face" (season 3, episode 23), which first aired May 10th, 1955 on ABC-TV. Dramatizes the campaign waged by James E. West, subsequently Executive Director, Boy Scouts of America, and Theodore Dreiser, subsequently a Pulitzer Prize novelist, for the establishment of the first juvenile court for the District of Columbia, finally achieved through the intervention of President Theodore Roosevelt.

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